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In our run-up to episode 50, The trolls invade Asgard in Thor #139! We have a major continuity error! Thor attempts suicide! There's a shrinking hammer (and it's not even cold outside), a communist troll, and in Tales of Asgard, we learn that Thor don't know much about geology. I can haz No-prize? Then in Thor #360 our heroes return to a destroyed, Odin-less Asgard. It's a more introspective issue, but Thor gets to throw runes and fight an Aztec mummy looking thing.

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In this episode, we cover two great issues as we go back to 1965 for Thor #137, featuring the first appearance of Ulik! Ulik, the mightiest rock troll of all! Ulik! Whose strength rivals that of Thor himself! Ulik! (not to be confused with any one else by the name of Ulik!) Ulik! Whose name is repeatedly stated throughout the issue! Yep, that Ulik! Then we leap forward to 1985 and look at Thor #358, in which Lorelei rides a stork, and Beta Ray Bill faces the commie menace of the Titanium Man!

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This week our good buddy Scott Coles joins me from Canada, and we discuss Thor #356, which features a fill-in featuring (who else?) Hercules, entertaining some hideously deformed children,  plus Walt Simonson (apparently) defaces a tree! Then in Thor #357, we're back to Simonson-y goodness as Thor returns to Asgard, there's a snowball fight, and Odin's throbbing sceptre is handled by almost everyone! (Oooh my!!)

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In this episode, we cover lots more zombie violence in Thor: Vikings #2, which has a very strange ending... Then in Thor #354, it's Thor vs. Hela, as everyone tries to figure out what to do now that Odin has gone down the hole... plus Thor plays drama queen again and runs away from home! All this, and another edition of... Just For Valhall-of-it!

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In this episode, we wrap up our coverage of Walt Simonson's epic Surtur storyline with Thor #353, and for those lovers of zombie vikings and gratuitous violence and gore, we also cover the first issue of Thor: Vikings from 2003! Plus, we remember the late, great John Severin.

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In this episode, we start out with a closer look at Odin's best wife, Frigga, in both mythology and comics, and then continue on with the sensational Simonson Surtur Saga as we go through The Mighty Thor issues #351 and #352! There's lotsa demons, lotsa fire, lotsa ice and... Comet, the Super-Horse??!!

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In this episode, we look at the next two issues in our on-going Walt Simonson reviews with Thor #347 and 348, which feature the menace of the mysterious Malekith! And behind the Stargate, Surtur is waiting... faeries and elves and broken glass in your eyes...oh my!

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In this episode, find out how YOU can smell like a god... Also, another podcast recommendation for you history buffs out there, and then we look at The Mighty Thor issues #345 and 346, featuring evil villainy of Malekith the Dark Elf! We learn that eating McBurgers can turn people into yellow dust, plus we have many many demon dog-goat things, and Thor kisses a dead tree, which I guess means never having to say you're sorry... and.. the Casket of Ancient Winters!

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This time around it's a Balder Bonanza! I read the Norse myths "Balder's Dreams" and "The Death of Balder"! Then I have a look at Thor #344, a Balder-centric issue which features the first appearance of the dark elf, Malekith, as Walt Simonson's epic storyline continues! There's also a Living Landslide! Plus.. Thor falls asleep!
Musical Excerpts from "Eddan: The Invincible Sword of the Elf Smith" are copyright Mats Wendt and are used with permission.

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Before we move on to the Simonson Fafnir story, we go back to where we left off in 1966 to cover Fafnir's first appearance in The Mighty Thor #134 and #135, which also features the first appearance of the High Evolutionary! Plus, we see Jane Foster teaching school, Odin's big-screen voyeurism, and I point out why fighting against Balder is not a fair fight... Also, cameos from Galactus, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet Witch!